Learning to dance at 21 in the hope of it becoming a career suggests someone has left their run a little late.
But, as it turned out, it was not too late for Terry Tsui, artistic director and choreographer of Spring Poetry, a non-profit-making dance group that focuses on developing dancing at all levels, including for the disabled.
Tsui graduated from New Method College in Kowloon, which has nothing to do with dance, in 1986. But by then he already knew he wanted to dance, though he had no basic skills.
'I used to dance a lot at parties at college. When I was dancing, I felt better about myself. Everyone looked at me, which made me proud and gave me courage,' Tsui says. 'I knew I had potential to dance.'
But at that age it was not easy.
Tsui applied to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (APA), which usually recruits students aged 17 to 18 who have received some basic dance training.